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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I just installed it to c:\baslin (I had 3.32 in d: already).
> >
> > startx 15 bit color 800 works fine with Matrox Millenium PCI.
> >
> > My 84-key keyboard works badly with X - not only don't arrow keys and
> > delete work, Enter won't even work in MagicPoint (for 'next page').
>
> Can't you use xmodmap to fix this?
Yes, I need to copy over my 84-key file.

> > Links works, with a mouse (offline anyway).
> >
> > Pppsetup works.
>
> I don't think Steven touched either of those.
>
> > Microcom works with my local bbs!  It did not before  - maybe the new
> > kernel helps?  I did not use a script but entered all commands manually:
>
> That is very interesting. Perhaps there was a small bug in the serial
> port driver of 2.2.16?

Or it could be that my bbs switched last year from a very old SunOS to 
OpenBSD.  It had worked previously with FreeBSD at another bbs.

> > I ssh'ed from grex to sdf.
> >
> > The Enter key is acting strangely, just like it does in XP. It puts me to
> > the start of the line after the FOLLOWING paragraph, and puts a blank line
> > before it.  Is this bad vt100 emulation?  Makes it hard to type responses
> > to the correct line.
>
> Is this before or after you ssh? There are several things that might
> be interacting to cause this problem. Can you switch terminal types
> using export TERM or the like before you use ssh? Can you then
> switch terminal types in sdf? You should try various terminal
> settings before giving up on microcom as broken (it could simply
> not be passing the terminal type to grex or sdf correctly).

When I dial with microcom to grex it does not ask me if I want terminal 
vt100, like it usually does.  I did not check pine at grex, just sdf.  At 
sdf lynx also did not work right - I have my links numbered and if I typed 
15 and Enter, it put me to link 16 and then immediately to the first link 
of link 16.

I used tset linux at grex, then ssh'ed here to sdf.  I don't recall if I 
was asked about terminal type, but if I was I answered linux.
I will experiment more at grex and sdf.

> Does the Enter key behave normally at a shell prompt? You may
> be able to tweak your editor to work around this.

I only noticed problems in pine and lynx, but did not take careful notes.

> > Microcom is not perfect but it is handy having it in BL3.4, which I hope
> > to soon see in 2-floppy version.
>
> I like it better than minicom... I can't even figure out how minicom
> works. And it is much smaller than either minicom or kermit.

They avoided ncurses.  (I compiled kermit for BL1/3 without ncurses but it 
is still quite large because it does much more).

Minicom Ctrl-A gets in the way.

> David

Sindi